Based on this excerpt from the preface, which best
explains why the author wrote the book?
O The author used materials found around the house to
make simple machines.
O The childhood friends of the author were also interested
in making and using machines.
O The author has had a lifelong interest in machines and
how to develop them for a variety of purposes.
O As a child, the author enjoyed outdoor activities such as
playing in a creek and riding on a bike.

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."

pandora was the poor unfortunate soul that was tricked into letting all of the evil of the world out of the pithos (any percy jackson fans out / box.